Consider an occasional "phone-free day" as a liberating less-technical refresh to:
- Spend more time in the day with the people you care about in a instead of with a multitasking device day. I could have been fussing with my phone for a good chunk of our shopping time but instead I focused on the less-than-frequent moments I have with my sister. I wasn't the best sister growing up in the "we're best friends who do fun stuff together" way. (I was more of the "she's my sister, why would I want to hang out with her, I live with her!" type of sister because we were/are both such opposites) On the few-times-a-year family occasions I find it important to spend time with her and try not to get annoyed or judgmental like I used to.
- Save money? Data, phone calls, and messages are chargeable activities depending on your smart phone's plan, but face-to-face conversation is always free right.
- Addictions to technology are not healthy. My left arm wise-crack is partially serious with how it feels without something I believe to be "sacred" in my own little way. Feeling lost, alone, and hopeless just because a little technical box is not attached to your body in some way sounds a little silly dontcha think? Learn to spend some time apart with your devices and left-arm-loosing panic will cease.
Well technically I'm using the word "day" in "phone-free day" loosely due to the fact that I did not touch my phone from midnight-ish last night until I got home from shopping during the daylight part of the today before dinnertime. In case somebody calls me out on a technicality by seeing a post on Facebook or something on this night, this is why...
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